The U.S. Department of Energy has committed $2 billion for smart technology improvements to the nation's electric grid, aiming to address concerns about artificial intelligence power usage, blackouts, and higher utility bills heading into the colder
Over the past decade, there has been an acceleration of refinery closures in North America, Europe and Oceania. The number one reason regulations or public policy.
The state of California spends billions of state and local tax dollars each year on welfare benefits for illegal immigrants through programs built to sidestep federal restrictions on public assistance, according to a new report from City Journal.
The first evacuation alert and flight delays have been issued as a massive storm barrels toward the Northeast, bringing intense flooding, hurricane-force winds and possible blackouts.
Sunday, June 14, 2026. UFC Freedom 250 on the White House lawn. Five men, coordinating over Signal, planned to send explosives-rigged drones over the arena, force a panicked evacuation, and then use sniper positions to cut down fleeing "high-value ta
South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group is on track to surpass 123-year-old Ford Motor in third-quarter US deliveries (a first ever) as consumers shift toward smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Iran is now watching its economy unravel in real time. The Statistical Center of Iran reports that GDP collapsed 10.1% during the first quarter of the Iranian calendar year, from March 21 through June 20, compared with the same period last year.
Covid was a litmus test for libertarians, not merely of whether they opposed lockdowns or vaccine mandates, but of whether they understood the Austrian and libertarian analysis underlying their skepticism of state power. Too many failed.
It's very rare for politicians to cut their losses. The usual path is to make a bad decision (like starting a war with Iran) and then to pile more bad decisions on top. Meanwhile, the citizens are forced into a pressure cooker. Each bad decision incr
• https://ronpaulinstitute.org, by William Dunkerley
President Trump's emissaries shuttled from Moscow to Kyiv seeking a way to end the Ukraine war. Afterward, Trump negotiator Jared Kushner explained, "…the hardest issue is still territory." That dispute centers on Crimea and Donbas.
I am in Washington this week. Yesterday afternoon Marine One flew over on its way to Joint Base Andrews, with the President on board to meet Xi Jinping's plane in person.
There are certain phrases you don't want to hear when you're involved in a massive infrastructure project, and "force majeure" is pretty high on the list.
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An SR-71 Blackbird parked for years on an outdoor display at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center is no longer visible in commercial satellite imagery, and the agency has offered no public explanation of where it went.
Life insurers sell large quantities of policies, thereby pooling risk and spreading out potential financial losses. The insurers then invest the proceeds in safe, high-quality corporate bonds.
Sanders Proposes New AI Bureaucracy
Fearful that unrestrained development of artificial intelligence could lead to human extermination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) has introduced legislation that would establish a new federal Department of Artifici
Trump has rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days and reportedly told aides he expects to resume bombing after November's elections
The top 10 stocks now account for roughly 40% of the index. Many are riding the AI boom. At that size, they can lift the S&P 500 even as a broad swath of stocks struggles.
Donald Trump arrives at the United Nations with a major announcement on Greenland, unveiling a new security agreement with Denmark and Greenland that expands America's military presence across the island and blocks non-NATO states from establishing
Shoe-horned into the permission grid. It's what they want and you know what? I think it's what they'll get. They'll get it because there is a loss of agency amongst the populace. The pushback to this Orwellian nightmare is…in a word, pathet
Walter Block was ejected from the Mises Institute after he wrote a Classical liberal defense of Israel after the October 7th terror attacks by Hamas. Austin Petersen interviews Block about the incident, the controversy surrounding Hans-Hermann Hoppe,
Following our earlier coverage of Barclays senior China economist Yingke Zhou's view that Chinese leader Xi Jinping's state visit delivered "more signaling, less substance," attention turns to Taiwan, where Xi pressed President Donald Trump to oppose
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that US President Donald Trump told him he had made the 'final decision' to allow Ukraine to produce Patriot air defence system's interceptor missiles.
From vaccine mandates causing injuries and death to governments stealing from the poor to give to their cronies to the attack on humanity in the form of wireless technology and "smart" surveillance meters, we all know the problem: people in posit
Following our earlier coverage of Barclays senior China economist Yingke Zhou's view that Chinese leader Xi Jinping's state visit delivered "more signaling, less substance," attention turns to Taiwan, where Xi pressed President Donald Trump to oppose
NATO has released a new recruitment-style advert about protecting Europe and supporting Ukraine--and Russell notices something rather striking about who suddenly appears in the campaign.